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Message: <blockquote data-quote="guachi" data-source="post: 6973681" data-attributes="member: 6785802">The feat is somewhat open-ended with part three of the feat only requiring the use of a one-handed weapon in the Attack action. If they had meant only one-handed melee weapon, they would have said so. But it very specifically only says "one-handed weapon" and they didn't errata it like they did in declaring "unarmed strike" not a weapon.Alternatively, you could hold a short sword (or any other one-handed weapon) in one hand and use that for your Attack action and then fire your hand crossbow with the other hand during the bonus action. In this case, assuming you are still had the short sword in your hand, the hand crossbow would already have to be loaded as you have no free hand to get ammunition. This is would be pretty cool. Since you can ignore disadvantage for being within 5 feet of a hostile creature, you can shoot that bad guy in the face after stabbing him or even stab the bad guy and shoot some other baddie across the room - all with no disadvantage!I'm not certain how easy it would be to carry multiple loaded hand crossbows around, but you could fire one in the first round, drop it, draw another, shoot it, drop it, etc. And in that case you'd not need an extra hand (at least in combat) to load the hand crossbow as you had already done it before hand.</blockquote>